Re: battery.el: Rename display-battery-mode to battery-mode?

[Juri Linkov]

>>> I tried to enable battery-mode on my notebook using `M-x battery-
>>> TAB' but I got "No match".  Eventually I found
>>> `display-battery-mode' in `battery.el'.  Shouldn't the name of the
>>> minor mode read `battery-mode' instead of `display-battery-mode'?
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> (In the meantime I saw that there's one similarly named (interactive)
> command `display-time-mode'.)
>
>>> +(define-obsolete-function-alias 'display-battery-mode 'battery-mode "22.1")

I suspect the name `display-battery-mode' was created to be similar to
`display-time-mode' which displays additional information in the mode
line as well.  I suggest to create a valid alias `display-battery-mode'
for renamed `battery-mode' instead of declaring it obsolete
(i.e. to use `defalias' instead of `define-obsolete-function-alias').
Maybe, you also need to create a variable alias `display-battery-mode'
for `battery-mode' because `define-minor-mode' creates a global variable.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/